Posts by Daniel von Asmuth

Re: Holographic?

Holography captures the phase relations, making it different from light-field photography, There has been talk of holographic storage, but the hardware has yet to materialise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_camera

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography

Re: Ah... the 60's are alive and well.

Fight terrorist propaganda? That amounts to censorship.

To fight terrorism means reducing the number of terrorists. The best way to achieve that goal is to alter the dictionary definition such that it matches fewer people. (that's how our government brought down unemployment numbers).

Re: Illiad, who ?

Illiad is a literary pseudonym of J.D. Frazer, who published a daily comic strip on http://www.userfriendly.org. Maybe this story is about a different Illiad, though.

This is entirely EUreasonable

This must be the first time the EUvil empire did something good.

Quoting Edsger W. Dijkstra: "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

Kewl!

Do you know if the BBC trademark is still being used, so maybe we can revive the Acorn BBC micro?

Upgradability

I understand the Macbook Pro is a laptop; enough said.

Now why didn't they design the Mac Pro so that there's no room for expansion like discs or PCI cards? It comes with one two year old processor and a measly 64 GB or RAM.

Re: Microbrachius Porn?

Indeed! About time that England declare independence from obscene Scotland.

Re: Terrorists win some more....

"this suspicion would be based on secret notes from intelligence services that people would not be able to challenge."

This sounds like the bad old times preceding the French Revolution.

Progress, Oracle, Intel, Digital (call it anything you want)

If you want performance on Cray scale, you have to buy 1000 of these boxes, and you will get nice designer seats for free.

Re: Activist Investors & Venture Captialists

There is a system for legally taking value out of a company: it's called taxation.

When there are several stakeholders in a company:

1) its employees

2) its customers

3) its suppliers

4) the community

Should not each group get its share in the policy-making of the company?

Re: Just a few suggestions

Just one: forbid organisations offering services for profit on the Internet, the cable TV network, the telephone network, and the cloud.

Re: Just provide one API

"No - code and conventions should be managed - otherwise you get a zoo - and incompatibility issues forever more - which is what the .Net Common Language Runtime already fixes"

1) In what way does Microsoft .NET 'manage' code?

2) In what way does Microsoft .NET 'manage' conventions?

3) Should coders, code, and/or conventions be managed? Why?

4) Is Microsoft .NET successful in this aspect?

5) Precisely what goes wrong without such management? Aren't there better ways of preventing that?

6) How does Microsoft .NET fix compatibilty issues?

7) Doesn't Microsoft .NET just create new compatibility issues? How 'universal' is it?

Chocolate was a Dutch invention

Do you suppose that Apple's Cocoa is killing the Swiss chocolate industry?

Re: I know what it is...

It denotes the Neander Pound currency, or it's the name of a minor deity.

The nerds who say Ni

China had a Linux ditribution called Red Flag and terminated it. Past claims indicate that they would like an OS that can run Windows applications.

Seven months? That's how long Microsoft takes for beta-testing a new version of Windows.

IS ISIS ISISIS IRA?

Do you mean Britons are starting to talk in Gaelic, drink black beer and celebrate St. Patrick's day?

Re: I smell a shill

Microsoft is considering to move its german headquarters from Unterschleißheim to nearby München (Munich). Wouldn't it be nice if the city government got rid of those pesky penguinheads?

Migrate or wait?

Should XP users all migrate to Windows 7 now or wait unitl 9? If you cannot upgrade XP to 7 smoothly or Seven will not be supported long enough, what's the point of migration?

Re: Best Browser

It may not be the best browser, but what about all those web site that work only with IE6?

Google translate!

"What goes up, must come down" ---> "Quod ascendit, deveniatur."

There are only two native speakers: Pontifices Franciscus et Benedictus XVI.

Re: This needs a patent

Maybe so, but the Registered Trademark has already been claimed .. see http://www.isense.nl

Re: Shmoptional

Where is the 'A' in "SPICE GIRLS"?.

Old stopgap measures never die

They tend to outlive laws designed for eternity.

Plasma loudspeakers?

I've seen plasma loudspeakers, but they were expensive. My wish list includes a law prohibiting mobile phones and:

- railguns.

- holographic TV

- hovercraft

- software without bugs

Re: Dark Matter

The opposite of light water is:

[] dark water

[] heavy water

[] anti-water

[] holy water

[] strong liquor

No

I heard a future update may return the Start menu. Why not stick with Windows 7? How long will *that* be supported?